It depends on what warning or error message the firewall is reporting.
It is a misunderstanding in that there is a world of difference between monitoring all web activity and reporting a crash.
I haven't seen OOo crash (have been using 1.1.4 for OS X heavily), so I can't say what goes on. However, if there isn't already a dialog, then the crash could spawn a dialog asking the user if it is ok to report the bug -- before trying to open any ports.
There are at least two problems. One is the misinterpretation of the bug report. Another is the spread of misinformation/urban legend. Maybe a third is the behavior of the crash report.
-Lars
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On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Alexandro Colorado wrote:
This is NOT a missunderstanding OOo DOES look to communicate with Sun Servers and the firewalls do warn the user about it. The firewall is doing it's job.
-- Alexandro Colorado Co-Leader of OpenOffice.org Spanish http://es.openoffice.org/
Mensaje citado por "Lars D. Noodén" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Alan Madden wrote: [...]Regardless of whether a program is trustworthy or not, I would not trust a company/firewall where you could 'buy' a bypass for your application.
Nor do I, but that is my understanding of how these things work.
Ultimately though, the implication of spyware is absolute nonsense. Not only is it entirely untrue and unfounded;[..]
Yes, but the potential for misunderstanding needs to be addressed in a proactive manner. There's also a bit of cognitive dissonance going on as well. MS products have lots of monitoring and backdoor-like behavior. However, the public seems jaded in regards to that.
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